On 8 Feb 2003 Benjamin Rutt posted the bug report pasted below. There
was no answer on the list and the behavior still persists (the
specific window manager is probably irrelevant; I mostly use KDE and
it happens there too).
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I just updated emacs CVS today (previously I had been using CVS from
about 6 months ago) and noticed what I believe is a bug, that wasn't
there in CVS 6 months ago. I'm using the window manager WindowMaker.
Here is the problem: every time I switch workspaces (a WindowMaker
term) from one containing an emacs frame to one that doesn't contain
an emacs frame, I get a message in the emacs echo area like:
(iconify-frame (#<frame <address@hidden> *scratch* 0x570a00>))
And when I return to the workspace that contains the emacs frame, I
get the following message in the echo area:
(make-frame-visible (#<frame <address@hidden> *scratch* 0x570a00>))
Are these kind of messages supposed to be sent to the echo area? Can
I suppress them? Thank you very much.